ECO Tourism: Principles and Sustainable Development for Stakeholders

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of eco-tourism, defining it as a form of tourism that minimizes its environmental impact. It highlights the importance of reducing the negative effects of large-scale tourism, focusing on preserving natural habitats and educating people about environmental conservation. The essay delves into the core principles of eco-tourism, such as building cultural and environmental awareness, providing positive experiences for both hosts and visitors, offering financial benefits for conservation efforts, and promoting low-impact development. It explains how these principles contribute to meeting the sustainable development needs of stakeholders, including financial gains, environmental preservation, and alternative sources of livelihood. The essay references academic sources to support its arguments and concludes that eco-tourism is a vital approach for achieving sustainable development goals without harming the environment.

ECO TOURISM

Discuss the concepts of Eco Tourism and how the principle of Eco Tourism
meets sustainable developmental requirements of its stakeholders
Eco tourism is a kind of tourism that focuses upon minimizing impact of tourism on
environment. It focuses upon reducing negative impact of large- scale tourism development on
environment. Main focus of eco- tourism is to cater for tourism so that people can experience
natural environment without disturbing or damaging its habitant (Turobovich, Uktamovna and
Turobovna, 2020). Today, eco- tourism is defined as a responsible travel to natural areas where
environment has been conserved where well-bring of people has been sustained and people are
being educated about important for natural environment and ways in which it can be conserved.
Today eco- tourism has very well absorbed sustainable development by managing social, natural
environment, culture of the communities. Focusing upon eco- tourism has successfully helped
tourism industry, community members to fulfil their sustainable development requirement with
the help of eco tourism.
Main principles of eco-tourism that helps stakeholders in meeting sustainable development
requirement are as follows:
One of the main principles of eco-tourism is to build cultural and environment awareness
among people so that people start respecting natural environment and people focus upon
reducing physical, behaviour, social and psychological impact upon environment. This helps
stakeholders in meeting sustainable development requirement because if people will understand
importance of natural environment and will bring changes within themselves so that
development by damaging natural habitant can be reduced or eliminated. Another principle of
eco-tourism is to provide positive experience to both host and visitors (Mondino and Beery,
2019). This principle further can help stakeholders to convince both host and visitors about
important of natural habitats. Positive experience of host can help stakeholders in convincing that
natural environment or habitant can also help in attracting visitors. Whereas positive experience
of visitors can help stakeholders in convincing them that even natural habitat is worth places for
vising and they provide a unique experience. This can further help stakeholders in maintaining
cleanliness within natural habitant places and meet their anther requirement of sustainable
development.
Another principle of eco- tourism is to provide financial benefits for conservation. It can
help in meeting stakeholders main need of sustainable development which is gain financial
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benefits like natural habitants or any other kind of places do not require much financial support
for maintenance and visitors vising such places and paying fees to visit such places can directly
help in enhancing overall profitability and gain other kinds of financial benefits. This can not
only help in generating financial benefit for tourism industry but it is beneficial for local people
as well. Principles of eco-tourism also helps in generating awareness among tourism industry
that low impact facilities construction and operations can also help in fulfilling their main
requirement of attracting a greater number of customers (Mondino and Beery, 2019). This
sustainable requirement is not fulfilled by focusing upon another main principle of eco-tourism
which is to recognize low impact development that can fulfil main requirements of both host and
visitors so that negative impact on environment can be reduced.
Conclusion
From the above question it has been summarized that Eco- tourism can directly help stakeholders
in meeting their sustainable development needs and requirements as it helps in providing
alternate source of livelihood and gaining financial benefit without impacting environment or
natural habitat.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Turobovich, J.A., Uktamovna, M.N. and Turobovna, J.Z., 2020. Marketing aspects of ecotourism
development. Economics, (1 (44)).
Mondino, E. and Beery, T., 2019. Ecotourism as a learning tool for sustainable development.
The case of Monviso Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, Italy. Journal of
Ecotourism. 18(2). pp.107-121.
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